Just so you know, merely abstaining is no longer enough for god. He wants to be sure you aren't kissing laying down, because when you make out you're basically just summoning Satan. Only kiss standing up now, lest you get too aroused and feel encouraged to do "the sex" which, by the way, god specifically made.

Seriously, what is the reasoning behind this? Can people really skim through ALL of the sex in the Bible and just conclude that "nope, god doesn't want me doing the sex."

Out of everything that's going on in the world, ebola, ISIS, you name it, is god's biggest concern making sure I don't do the hanky panky?

1. Make people believe something that is natural and pleasurable is a sin
2. People engage in the act and feel guilty about it
3. Offer forgiveness [ETA: for compensation]
4. Profit (money/power/control/whatever)

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1. Make people believe something that is natural and pleasurable is a sin

Definitely. I remember back when I was still a religious knob, I had this thing where basically any time I was really happy, I would remember that everything that was making me happy (girlfriend, sex, video games, whatever) was probably against god's will for me, and I would just immediately drop into a horrible depressed/anxious state. It was the worst thing ever. Even now that I've been free of it for a little over a year, I still sometimes get a little pang of anxiety whenever I realize that I'm content, because I'm still subconsciously expecting that drop into being the sad.

Who comes up with these rules for proper purity? I really don't get how people can be so stupid. If "god" didn't want us to enjoy sex, then why would "god" have made it pleasurable? "God" could have made an attraction trait to facilitate procreation without making the sex itself pleasurable. So none of this makes sense even from a religious perspective.

Pretty soon these nutjobs are going to be saying:
God wants you to think only of his greatness. Doing anything else at any time is sinful.

(10-12-2014 08:26 AM)Jasozz Wrote: He wants to be sure you aren't kissing laying down, because when you make out you're basically just summoning Satan. Only kiss standing up now, lest you get too aroused and feel encouraged to do "the sex" which, by the way, god specifically made.

I wonder how he feels about all the times I made out with my wife standing up and then proceeded to have sex... standing up? Did God not design standing sex, or is this just another bit of oversight from poorly thought out theology?

(10-12-2014 10:17 AM)Impulse Wrote: Who comes up with these rules for proper purity? I really don't get how people can be so stupid. If "god" didn't want us to enjoy sex, then why would "god" have made it pleasurable? "God" could have made an attraction trait to facilitate procreation without making the sex itself pleasurable. So none of this makes sense even from a religious perspective.

Pretty soon these nutjobs are going to be saying:
God wants you to think only of his greatness. Doing anything else at any time is sinful.

Exactly. He could have made us like the Praying Mantis, the horny couple has sex and then she rips his head off and eats him. That would give me pause for having "the sex".

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